United Thank Offering
Gratitude and Good-Byes
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1), and this is the end of my season as UTO president as I pass the leadership to Sherri Dietrich, the incoming president. I have the usual people to thank: the entire UTO Board, the UTO staff, other women’s organizations […]
Love People. Love Coffee.
I like to write in coffee shops … some of you have even caught me doing it when you’ve called and I’ve had to apologize for the background noise. I’ve always like working in coffee shops. Most Saturday mornings while in seminary, I could be found writing papers at one of the three coffee shops […]
Upcoming Dates, Deadlines, and Surveys
Upcoming Important Grant Process Dates 2018 Annual Grant Process: Because this is a General Convention year, UTO grants will be announced at General Convention on Friday, July 6, and all applicants will be notified via email that morning. 2018 grant brochures will be available starting on July 6 at the UTO Booth, and by August […]
Grant Site Updates: Sites Coming to General Convention and the UTO Booth
Usually this space is reserved to tell you about one grant site, but since this is our Pre-Convention E-News, we wanted to remind you that, each day during Convention, we’ll have a lunchtime talk from one of our grant sites. For those of you not coming to Convention/Triennial, you can join us on Facebook, where […]
UPDATE: UTO Pre-Convention Packet and Registration!
Thank you to the 60 people who have already filled out our online form to register for workshops and the UTO Ingathering and to update your information. We’ve sent out 15 certificates to dioceses to thank those UTO coordinators whose terms have come to an end, which we learned about through your registration. If you […]
Thank You to All of Our Past UTO Coordinators!
As a part of our pre-convention packet/registration, we asked for information to help populate our new database (we’ll keep asking for it through Convention and then give you ways to update it as time goes by). One of the things we asked was for you to let us know if a UTO coordinator has rotated […]
2018-2020 UTO Coordinators Handbook and Updated Governing Documents Now Available!
In preparation for General Convention/Triennial, the UTO Board has updated (and gotten approved) all UTO governing documents. All of these documents are now available for download and use by those who need them. Below is a list of the documents and where you can find them. Memorandum of Understanding Between DFMS and UTO Board: Updated […]
Convention Help Needed!
During General Convention, we need volunteers for a variety of things, so we hope you can find time to help! UTO has increased the events we’re offering at this Convention in the hopes of getting the message out about gratitude to as many people as possible, which means we will be a little shorthanded at […]
Blue Box App Launch Party
After many months of collaborative work between Cheii’s Web Development and the staff of the United Thank Offering, we are excited to launch our new Blue Box app, which allows you to donate straight from your phone. It’s like having a Blue Box right in your pocket! The staff and Board of the United Thank Offering […]
Quiet Moments of Gratitude
I currently live in a place that NOAA has described as suffering from a “severe drought,” which means we’d need six to nine inches of rain to make up what we’re missing. Two weeks ago, the skies turned dark and it smelled like rain, but the moisture never made it to the ground. On Sunday, […]
